An Indian boy who had 232 teeth removed from his mouth in a record-breaking
operation is recovering in hospital in Mumbai.

Ashik Gavai, 17, from Buldhana in central India, underwent a seven-hour
operation to remove the teeth earlier this week.

Vandana Thoravade, a surgeon at JJ Hospital in Mumbai, who conducted the
operation, said doctors believed it was a world record and that he was
suffering from a rare condition known as complex odontoma.

“Two hundred and thirty two was the number of teeth we could count,” Dr
Thoravade said. “There were many more. The total number of teeth must